Device for drying or airing garments or other articles



A. M. G. KEYS Jan., 13, w31.

DEVICE FOR DRYING OR AIRING GARMENTS OR OTHER ARTICLES Filed OCJL. 2. 1928 ,Patented Jan. 13,1931 y d l i UNITED STATES PATENTTOFFICEe;; y. 1 ADELA MARY GRAY KEYS, OFif DEVICEFOI; DRYING'ORAIRING GARMiTirsioiz 'orinnAnriIcnEs .Appli-cation pled October 2, 1928, vSerial No. 309,845, and in Great (lpetobfpsr A65-1927.1

My invention relates to that class of device more thicknesses kor layers of they nettingor employed kfor drying or airing garments, vlinother material used. e Y en and other artic-les, rwhich serves as a The improved'drying or airing kdevice may clothes-horse or support and is arranged in be attached to an 'associated stove by means A a position above or on the top of a portable of pin and slot or pin and eyelet connections, 50 or vother stove used for heating,'cooking or or by means of clips or in any other convenient Y fory similar purposes. y known manner. If desired, the device may f The invention consists in an improved conbe ittedv with legs for supporting from the struction and arrangement of such a device ground, in additionto or in place of the abovewhich may be of any required size. Accordmentioned supporting means. 555- ing to the invention, the improved drying or The invention is illustrated in the annexed airing device, which is preferably made of drawings, in which`rf Y Y metal, has an, upright body part of cylindri- Fig. v1 is an elevation of the drying device Y cal or other tubular form, the lower portion attached 4to a stove, the cap pieceor cover Y n of the body being detachably supported on member ybeing shown separately. j 60l the upper part or top of the stove with which Fig. 2 is a plan with the cover member rev t the device is associated. The bottom-end moved,and v of the body is open, but its upper end is Fig. 3S a detail view with the-cover mein-k closed by a cap piece Vwhich may be in one ber turned upsdellOWll-- with or be attached' to or engaged with the In` these drawings, e'repr'esentsthe body 65- y ed when not in use.

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body.4 The body may consist ofa single mem- 0f the drying deYCe', whCh as shown 'may ber yor a number of members which may be COIIVSIS 0f a VCylindrical V.upright member .hinged or otherwise connected togetherso as Vformed ofwire. 'The cap piece or coverl to permit of the body being collapsed orV foldmember I) 1s preferably formed yof the same Y material as,but' is offlarger'diameter than, 70

The cap piece may be circular 0r 0f other the member, (L, in order that articles sus-` desired coniguration and maybe domed or lIJQIldkll lIOIJH it d0 110i? C0111@ 111150 Conta-C13` iiat on the top and be provided with orwith- W1Jah the membl'- The 13H31?? 1S tted OVGI out iin-like or other appropriately shaped the upper POIIOHO a SOVB @by means 0f projecting parts on itsl upper surface. It may the legs d, which are made of some material 75 Y be of suchasize that marginal portions thereadapted t0 be Somewhat expanded radiallyvof overhang the rim or mouthof the body so so that' the. legs may adam themselves to thatportions of garments or other articles Vamatlons .m fslze 1n the -Clrcumfrence of' placed on the cap piece can be suspended the Stove" i f around the body without touching itand The Cover'mmberrbimay be made Convxso Without risk of being scorched. in shape and may be reversed as shown 1n 1 The side wall or'walls of the. tubular body Stlageglgacra v maybe of wire or wire netting, kwhich may be Vice O'Ifl the armnd hen not ine e y' in l" I y smooth. Alternatively, the walls may.k be A' der lcolmjrs'mg a vertal frame, a. y formed-0f other appfoprlat@ fora-mmol@ 111.21 foraminousxbody..portion surrounding the terlalsuch as sheet metal plate, or consist 1nY Verticalk frame, the frame having legs EX- Wlloleor parli Of asbestos OI like Substance. tended' from its bottoml to engage over a y The side wall or .walls may consist of one or stove when the drier is in use, or forma 9o ik* support when out of use, a concave-convex foraminous capl on top of the frame, said cap being of greater diameter than the horizontal diameter of the frame, and extending beyond the latter, the foraminous cap adapted to be seated on top of the frame to form either a concave receptacle for thegoods be ing dried or inverted to form a convex support for goods to be dried, in either position saidfcap being retained in position by the roughened Vportions of the oraminous material interlocking :Withthe ledge ofthe corj responding portions of the foraminmous :ma A

terial surrounding` the HVerticalY frame.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto V signed my name.

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